The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-04
eoTrLEs AND BABIES.
What . Lady Physician Has to Say Aboas
Crying Infants.

eOTTLEs AND BABIES.
what . Lady Phy.iciaa Has to Say Aboas
Crying Infants
There is nothing whatever to be said
in favor of nursing bottles with their
pernicious nipples and tubes. O the
$1,000. 600 nursing bottles that our well
meaning country produces annually,
one-half that number directly and
speedily cause the death OF 4.OOO,OOO
infants fed from them; !, 1000, 900 will SO
impair the digestive powers of as many
babies that no amount of medical skill
and nursing can save from the inevita-
bic and often lingering bottle death;
1000, 600 accidentally find their way
into the hands of very conscientious
women. each of whom spends more
time and labor and anxiety scrubbing
and purifying hers from dirt and mi-
crobes and things than would keep
spoons and cups clean for dozen ba-
bies; 100000 must be counted as
breakage and unused bottles.
Artificial food is not always accu-
rately prepared or properly packed. 1t
| also is too sparing of neutral proper
ties. If cows milk has proven treach-
erous after careful trial, then the
next most reliable thing is condensed
milk. And if the fat has gone forth in
the household that artificial food shall
be used. almost any brand may be
chosen from well-supplled market,
especial care being taken to use milk
in its preparation. and to guard against
sour nipples and tubes or perhaps
clean bottle. Otherwise the child will
slowly starve. though giving no signs
of stomach or bowel indigestion until
toward the end. the salvation OF this
diet being the milk used and grown
up food which is daily given the baby
on the sly.
What of crying babies? These un-
fortunatcs are either starving or have
some form of stomach or bowel indi-
gestion. Because 4 nurse has great
quantity of what seems excellent milk.
is no reason that her baby can thrive
on it. 1t lacks some ingredient to
pacify and satisfy the child. Perhaps
too much work or too much idleness on
the part of the mother. Too much tea
or coffee; ton much milk for lymph
attic nurse. or too much beer or ale or
some form of alcoholic beverage will
fill the neighborhood with the most
distressing cries of pain and anger
from the wretched little dyspeptic. The
majority of crying babies who have no
visible ailment will kick and cry day
and night necessarily until their breast
or bottle is substituted by ''grown-up'
food.
Diseased babies are in the same pre-
dicament Of starvation, in addition to
the pain they suffer from their inherit
ancc. Their mtoward condition is
generally discovered from about the
third or fourth week to three months.
and is never mistaken by the physician.
These and the crying babies (no mat
ter how young) always do better on
carefully prepared cows milk and
"srown-up" food selected by con.
scientious nurse. The diseased babies
never should nurse any woman, moi
even their own mother.
What is the cheapest and best food
for the baby? That only which will
nourish it and make it happy and good
natured, whether II will cost one dol
lar or ten dollars week.
The most comfortable and contentef
babies are those who grow up in thu
daily society of children. but whose
physical wants are kindly anticipates
by agreeable and motherly women o
the lymphatic type, because this elias
Of attendants are slow to anger. SLOW
of action, very patient, and conse
quently very attractive to all children
! more especially the nervous ones, VIII
are neither frightened into CONFUSION
nor St. Vitus dance by their speech o
D movements.
The clothing should be ample ant
suitable to the season. always of was
0 material. and wooden Throughout,
J Garments for the winter are of cOurs
9 heavier and more numerous than thos
: for the summer. For this purpos
white cashmere may be worn. or kni
d shirts of very fine wool. But ever
!. article of dress should be large enoug
e to accommodate the baby's growth. a
K we'll rs shrinkage of the goods. Tn
i least work for the laundry, rs we'll a
4 the least disturbance to the chill
Il would suggest waists with button
l. (flat) Mt the belt to accommodate tn
but.on-holes in the bands of all tn
petticoats worn. so that if necessary
5 soiled skirt may readily he replaced b
It clean one without removing the wal:
It also.-Odelia Blinn, II. D., in ChjcaS
Inter- Ocean.